While the Higher Education literature is replete with studies investigating the effects the work environment has on the employment relationship and job-related attitudes of academics, there is a paucity of empirical research ...

This paper seeks to identify, for the first time, trends in claimant use of the Irish Employment Equality Acts 1998–2008. Specifically, we examine types of claimant representation, the sectoral origin of claims and the ...

Despite the robust relationship between well-being and social relationships, the latter has received little examination within positive psychology activities (PPAs). This study aimed to test whether kindness- and gratitude-based ...

The aim of this policy paper is to describe the current role of academic family enterprise education in Finland. Family business centers and family business programmes have been started around the world to offer education ...

Purpose – This paper seeks to contribute to entrepreneurship education research by exploring entrepreneurship students' views of plagiarism, and their ability to recognise and avoid plagiarism.
Design/methodology/approach ...

This paper considers the requirements for an industry sector approach to entrepreneurship education – The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector. We present a modified Process Framework for Entrepreneurship ...

An environmental levy recently introduced in Ireland imposes a tax at the point of retail sale on lightweight plastic bags used by shoppers, previously supplied free of charge by retailers. This paper assesses the measure ...

This thesis consists of four individual essays which are framed by an introductory and a concluding chapter. While independent from each other, the essays all focus on the topic of foreign investment in developing and ...

China’s economic achievement over the past three decades has been remarkable. It has managed to maintain a sustained period of unprecedented growth since its reform and “opening-up” policies of 1978. As China is now as ...

Innovation is a well-recognised determinant of growth in firms, regions and the economy as a whole. Many studies focus on tangible conditions and factors related to innovation, including human capital. Human capital is an ...

In this study, I empirically examine the determinants of firms’ derivatives
usage. Theory suggests that market exposure, manager-shareholder agency
conflicts, and the threats of financial distress and underinvestment can ...

Developing countries have recently been emulating innovation policies
implemented by developed countries with the firm conviction that it will improve
their economic development prospects. Nevertheless, the specificities ...

Business networks are used by firms as a tool for organising interdependent business
activities, where such networks are defined as a cooperative arrangement between independent business organisations that can vary from ...

This paper examines an approach to estimating the net additionality of financial
assistance to indigenously-owned firms in Ireland for the period 2000 to 2002. Using a
sample of Enterprise Ireland assisted-firms an ...

This paper examines an approach to estimating the net additionality of financial
assistance to indigenously-owned firms in Ireland for the period 2000 to 2002. Using a
sample of Enterprise Ireland assisted-firms an ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis research was commissioned by Doras Luimní with the aim of providing a micro and strategic analysis of ethnic entrepreneurs in the Midwest region of Ireland. A number of objectives were formed in order ...

This paper employs a unique, largely hand-gathered dataset to investigate the determinants of both foreign currency (FX) and interest rate (IR) derivatives usage for a sample of European non-financial firms. By measuring ...